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tripper

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English

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Etymology

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    From trip + -er.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    tripper (plural trippers)

    1. One who trips or stumbles.
      • 2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon:
        Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward []
    2. A person experiencing a hallucinogenic trip.
    3. Gonorrhea.
    4. (UK) A tourist.
    5. (historical) Synonym of tripman.

    Derived terms

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    Anagrams

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    Danish

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    Verb

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    tripper

    1. present of trippe

    Hungarian

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    Etymology

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    From German Tripper.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): [ˈtripːɛr]
    • Hyphenation: trip‧per
    • Rhymes: -ɛr

    Noun

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    tripper (countable and uncountable, plural tripperek)

    1. (colloquial) gonorrhea (an STD caused by a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts)
      Synonyms: gonorrhea/gonorrhoea, kankó

    Declension

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    Possessive forms of tripper
    possessor single possession multiple possessions
    1st person sing. tripperem trippereim
    2nd person sing. trippered trippereid
    3rd person sing. trippere tripperei
    1st person plural tripperünk trippereink
    2nd person plural tripperetek trippereitek
    3rd person plural tripperük trippereik

    References

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    1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

    Further reading

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    • tripper in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
    • tripper in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

    Swedish

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    Noun

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    tripper

    1. indefinite plural of tripp